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DESCRIPTION:Screening of the new documentary\n\n'WHO BOMBED JUDI BARI?'\n\nMonday, 
 March 26, 2012 / 7:30 pm\nOccupy Oakland\nCity Hall, Outdoor Event, 
 Free\nat "Oscar Grant Plaza" (14th and Broadway, 
 downtown)\nwww.occupyoakland.org\n\n\nFilm Summary\n\nA news anchor reports 
 while graphic news coverage of a terrorist car bomb attack in 1990 in 
 Oakland, CA is shown. Two Earth First! activists are immediately blamed by 
 the FBI for bombing themselves. We learn that the victim/suspects Judi Bari 
 and Darryl Cherney have later sued the FBI and Oakland Police and that Judi 
 Bari is now dying of cancer before her case goes to trial. Weak though 
 defiant, she gives her deposition, on camera, just a month before she 
 dies.\n\nThis action-packed journey unfolds in the order Judi testified, 
 questioned by civil rights attorney Dennis Cunningham. The archival footage 
 brings the story to life, driven by music from the Earth First! movement. 
 Judi Bari, an eloquent, brash orator with a union background, grows into a 
 powerful environmental leader. Story threads and character arcs intertwine: 
 the lawsuit against the FBI, the complex history of Earth First!, the 
 loggers, the controversy of tree spiking, the political/romantic 
 partnership of Judi and Darryl, and the fate of the ancient 
 redwoods.\n\nEarly 1980's Earth First! footage conveys the thinking of the 
 founders, such as Dave Foreman and writer Edward Abbey. Deep ecology and 
 civil disobedience are depicted in action. As Judi scores victories, 
 tensions grow into violence. As Judi and Darryl successfully organize for 
 the Cahto Wilderness, Headwaters Forest, and Redwood Summer which bring 
 thousands to the area, they experience the chilling fear of death threats 
 and ultimately the government's convoluted reasoning to accuse them of the 
 crimes committed against them.\n\nWhen a letter describing the bomb 
 components takes credit for the attack, the FBI accuses Judi's relatives of 
 typing the letter, searching her house, pulling nails from the window trim 
 to see if they matched nails strapped to the bomb. Judi describes this 
 invasion emotionally and how it affected her children. The evidence clearly 
 proved that the bomb was hidden beneath her seat, while the FBI claimed 
 that it should have been visible.\n\nJudi's testimony that she had to give 
 up her forest activism due to cancer segues into her greatest speech before 
 5,000 people, including Bonnie Raitt (who sings). It culminates with the 
 largest civil disobedience in U.S. history --1033 people arrested in 
 support of Headwaters Forest.\n\nThe deposition ends with the stunning 
 revelation that neither the FBI nor the Oakland attorney has a single 
 question. Her touching reaction is that she "gets to go home," rather than 
 face more days of questioning.\n\nThe film transitions to the news on the 
 day that Judi's deposition was given to the jury in 2002. Lawyers at the 
 courthouse, a radio interview with a jury member, and the exuberance of the 
 day the $4.4 million verdict comes in builds to a powerful conclusion\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/03/23/18709972.php
SUMMARY:Film Screening: WHO BOMBED JUDI BARI?
LOCATION:Occupy Oakland\nOscar Grant Plaza, in front of Oakland City Hall\n14th 
 Street and Broadway, downtown Oakland
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/03/23/18709972.php
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